3 Indian abductees return with help of Bangladeshi security forces
Sun Online Desk
Additional Director General of Police Rajiv Singh inspecting border site from where workers were abducted
Three citizens of Tripura in India have returned to safety from captivity of banned separatist and terrorist outfit NLFT (Utpal) as a result of active role by Bangladesh security forces.
The returnees are NPCC site supervisor Shubhash Bhoumik, JCB excavator driver Shubol Debnath and head of workers Gonopoti Tripura.
They were engaged in building barbed wire fences at the Bangladesh-India border at the moment of falling prey to abductors on December 7.
NLFT outfit kidnapped the three workers on gunpoint from the area between Malda Kumar Royajapara and Horiyamuni under Ganganagar police station of Dholai district.
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Security personnel patrol the area bordering Bangladesh. (Representational Image)
More than a fortnight after they were kidnapped near the Bangladesh border, the three border fencing workers have been released by National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT-BM) ultras.
Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Tripura Police Subrata Chakraborty told indianexpress.com that the trio was released on Wednesday due to “continuous operations” by the local police and other security forces, and “tremendous pressure” mounted on overground workers of the insurgent outfit inside Tripura.